University's Next Project:
Building a 'Model' City

By

Deborah Steinborn Special to The Wall Street Journal

Updated Nov. 12, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

What will the city of the future look like? Next autumn, students at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland will seek to answer that question by building one of their own with the help of star architect Daniel Libeskind.

Not a real city, mind you, but close enough. The school's roughly 800 incoming bachelor's-degree candidates will spend a full week conceptualizing, then designing and building, a "model" city complete with government, housing, industry and services, culture, sports, religion and...